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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>JEREMIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 10
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Learn not the way of the heathen—Their gods are idols and molten images—The Lord is the true and living God.
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Hear</span> ye the word which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Learn not the way of the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 40: 19 (19-20); Isa. 44: 12; TG Traditions of Men.">customs</a> of the people <i>are</i> vain: for <i>one</i> cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
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They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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They <i>are</i> upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 46: 7.">borne</a>, because they cannot go.  Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also <i>is it</i> in them to do good.
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Forasmuch as <i>there is</i> none <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 71: 19.">like</a> unto thee, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; thou <i>art</i> great, and thy name <i>is</i> great in might.
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Who would not fear thee, O King of nations?  for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Esth. 1: 13.">wise</a> <i>men</i> of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, <i>there is</i> none <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 8: 10 (8-10); Ps. 89: 6.">like</a> unto thee.
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But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock <i>is</i> a doctrine of vanities.
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Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple <i>is</i> their clothing: they <i>are</i> all the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 115: 4.">work</a> of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 124: 84.">cunning</a> <i>men.</i>
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But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <i>is</i> the true <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Josh. 22: 34; D&C 76: 1.">God</a>, he <i>is</i> the <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="JS-H 1: 17.">living</a> God, and an everlasting <sup>c</sup><a href="jer/10/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Kingdom of God, in Heaven.">king</a>: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his <sup>d</sup><a href="jer/10/10d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of.">indignation</a>.
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Thus shall ye say unto them, The <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">gods</a> that have not made the heavens and the earth, <i>even</i> they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
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He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.
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When he uttereth his voice, <i>there is</i> a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB storehouses.">treasures</a>.
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Every man is brutish in <i>his</i> knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Idolatry.">image</a>: for his molten image <i>is</i> falsehood, and <i>there is</i> no breath in them.
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They <i>are</i> vanity, <i>and</i> the work of <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/15a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB mockery.">errors</a>: in the time of their <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 56: 1.">visitation</a> they shall perish.
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The portion of Jacob <i>is</i> not like them: for he <i>is</i> the former of all <i>things;</i> and Israel <i>is</i> the rod of his inheritance: The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts <i>is</i> his name.
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&#182; Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.
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For thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find <i>it so.</i>
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&#182; Woe is me for my hurt!  my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this <i>is</i> a grief, and I must bear it.
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My <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 20.">tabernacle</a> is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they <i>are</i> not: <i>there is</i> none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/21a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shepherds.">pastors</a> are become brutish, and have not sought the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 1: 14; Jer. 4: 6; Jer. 6: 1.">north</a> country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, <i>and</i> a den of <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/22b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB jackals.">dragons</a>.
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&#182; O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I know that the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 20: 24.">way</a> of man <i>is</i> not in himself: <i>it is</i> not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">correct</a> me, but with <sup>b</sup><a href="jer/10/24b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 34: 16; 1 Ne. 22: 21.">judgment</a>; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the <sup>a</sup><a href="jer/10/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eph. 6: 4 (1-4).">families</a> that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.
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